Deep in the bowels of the avant-garde, glass and metal MIT Media Lab, graduate student Kevin Hu is making faces into an ornate mirror. He opens his eyes and mouth as wide as possible in a caricature ...

Graphics Interchange Formats – more commonly known as GIFs -- have become an increasingly fun and addictive way to express our feelings on social media, but can they be used to map the language of all ...

“We were talking about GIFs one day,” Hu told Quartz, “and we realized that they’re becoming more and more serious of a medium. They’re more popular, they’re used for more things.” Buzzfeed, for ...

Steven Musil is the night news editor at CNET News. He's been hooked on tech since learning BASIC in the late '70s. When not cleaning up after his daughter and son, Steven can be found pedaling around ...

Do you want to rule the internet? Better up your GIF game, dude. Here’s some help: GIFGIF is an interactive project by two students at the MIT Media Lab that catalogues moving images by emotion. You ...

I'd like to start with a simple public service announcement: Tumblr has its own GIF maker now, allowing you to create your own animated images from pictures and videos on your phone. That's right — ...

Whenever I head to a Vinyasa yoga class, I always leave more relaxed and uplifted than when I first arrived. With that said, sometimes I need to jump all over the emotional spectrum to find that place ...

The massive adoption of smartphones is likely contributing to the shift toward visual communication. While the survey commissioned by Tenor found that people are using emojis, stickers and GIFs to ...